In the north the border went westward from Michmethath; it turned eastward from Taanath-shiloh and passed it east of Janoah.

From Janoah it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and went to the Jordan.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—and deported the people to Assyria.